What Can Literature Do for Me?Doubleday, Page, 1913 - 231 Seiten |
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American Arnold Arthur Henry Hallam Beatrice beauty Becky Sharp begin better central idea century Chambered Nautilus character David Copperfield death Don Quixote drama Emerson England English epic essay Excelsior expression fact Falstaff Faust feel Francis Miles Finch give grief Hallam Hamlet heart hills of Habersham honour human nature Huxley ideal imagination incident interpretation Jean Valjean kind King Arthur knowledge language learned Leatherstocking Les Misérables liberal education lines literature lived Longfellow look lyric Macaulay masters means narration narrative Nathaniel Hawthorne never noble novels oration paragraph past perfect historian Pippa Pippa Passes poem poet poetry prose Robinson Crusoe Scott sentences Shakespeare short story Silas Marner song soul speech spirit stanza Stone Face Tennyson thee things thou tion to-day truth types Ulysses Uncle Remus valleys of Hall whole words writers written wrote
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Seite 163 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a Poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Seite 89 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on, how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour ? What is that honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it ? He that died o
Seite 44 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the" world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Seite 57 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming Lair.
Seite 139 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm • To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore!
Seite 162 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler!
Seite 125 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Seite 159 - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, — The harvest of a quiet eye That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
Seite 29 - That he shouts with his sister at play ! 0 well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But...
Seite 7 - I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.